God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions..

The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it s….

A Marxist has never written a good novel..

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature..

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression..

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself..

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we ….

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law an….

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth..

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophica….

In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka..

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop..

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan..

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet..

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything..

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that ….

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor….

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, ….

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground..